I am a fan of Rob Zombie films. Going into this film I had a middle of the road expectation based upon what I had witnessed from his other works like Halloween, House of 1000 corpses etc. So lets say I did not have high expectations, but I did not have low ones either.
The film starts out with some scary visuals during a black mass that lets me feel like this is going to be a fantastic scary paranormal evil movie. After the opening bit, everything starts going downhill relatively fast unfortunately. The protagonist has little depth to her personality, little background is provided on her character other than a family tree, so I felt that combined with the poor acting that she is a 2-D character. The visuals let the viewer feel like its the 70's in the proper manner, so this was achieved successfully.
There is some early mystery and intrigue, but then things begin to go a little to artistic for my liking. The film quickly delves into a style of film that I can only describe as "Cronenberg-esk". It gets confusing and ridiculous in a fashion that reminds me of the Cronenberg movies Inland Empire or perhaps Lost Highway except worse.
By the time we enter the final third of the movie I am completely befuddled by artistic overload. Yes, there is murder and evil things happening, but it is just a little bit TOO strange and silly for my taste. The atmosphere akin to the stranger episodes of Twin Peaks complete with midgets is just plain ridiculous. The goat riding and naked old ladies was also quite a turn-off in ways I cant even describe.
The music is evil death metal, the acting is poor and the artsy feel were a bit too much. On the plus side the plot is understandable, yet not very deep, the scene's did not seem to come together very well and overall this movie was a total waste of time. It is very rare that I find a movie that has so few redeeming qualities in it, but here it is. Do yourself a favour and avoid this one.
The film starts out with some scary visuals during a black mass that lets me feel like this is going to be a fantastic scary paranormal evil movie. After the opening bit, everything starts going downhill relatively fast unfortunately. The protagonist has little depth to her personality, little background is provided on her character other than a family tree, so I felt that combined with the poor acting that she is a 2-D character. The visuals let the viewer feel like its the 70's in the proper manner, so this was achieved successfully.
There is some early mystery and intrigue, but then things begin to go a little to artistic for my liking. The film quickly delves into a style of film that I can only describe as "Cronenberg-esk". It gets confusing and ridiculous in a fashion that reminds me of the Cronenberg movies Inland Empire or perhaps Lost Highway except worse.
By the time we enter the final third of the movie I am completely befuddled by artistic overload. Yes, there is murder and evil things happening, but it is just a little bit TOO strange and silly for my taste. The atmosphere akin to the stranger episodes of Twin Peaks complete with midgets is just plain ridiculous. The goat riding and naked old ladies was also quite a turn-off in ways I cant even describe.
The music is evil death metal, the acting is poor and the artsy feel were a bit too much. On the plus side the plot is understandable, yet not very deep, the scene's did not seem to come together very well and overall this movie was a total waste of time. It is very rare that I find a movie that has so few redeeming qualities in it, but here it is. Do yourself a favour and avoid this one.